09-07-2020, 12:44 AM
wurm wrote:
Yeah, I think it was Charles Rocket and yes, it was Fridays. That was the show in which I first remember ever seeing Kramer (Michael Richards).
And it was just a few years ago that Kristin Steward dropped it on SNL.
It was SNL, he was in a Who Shot JR Dallas skit, at the closing of the show with the cast on stage he said "I'd like to know who the fuck did it". I remember watching it live. It's also not clear that he got fired for it, there was a big shakeup and many cast members were let go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rocket#Dismissal
The Saturday Night Live episode of February 21, 1981, hosted by Dallas star Charlene Tilton, featured a parody of the famed "Who Shot J.R.?" story arc from the then-popular nighttime soap. During the show a plot line had Rocket and Tilton flirting while other cast members expressed jealousy, leading to Rocket being shot in the chest by a sniper in the middle of a sketch. In the show's closing moments, as cast members gathered with the host to say good night, Tilton asked Rocket how he felt about being shot. In character, Rocket replied "Oh man, it's the first time I've ever been shot in my life. I'd like to know who the fuck did it."[8] He attempted to explain it away as an extemporaneous exclamation.
Due partially to the violation of broadcast standards, along with negative press regarding the new cast and declining ratings for both the series and the network in general, NBC replaced Doumanian with Dick Ebersol after one further episode. Ebersol, who placed the show on hiatus for a month to retool, dismissed Rocket, along with several of the writers and fellow cast members Gilbert Gottfried and Ann Risley, before the next episode. A writers' strike led to the suspension of the rest of the season, and when the show returned in October 1981, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy were the only cast members who were held over from Doumanian's era.